Trump falsely accuses senator of misrepresenting Gorsuch criticism

[struggle4progress]

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 1:21 PM ET, Thu February 9, 2017

... Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Wednesday that Judge Neil Gorsuch, Trump's nominee, told him he found Trump's attack on a federal judge on Twitter "disheartening" and "demoralizing."

Within a half-hour, Gorsuch spokesman Ron Bonjean, who was tapped by the White House to head communications for Gorsuch, confirmed that the nominee, Gorsuch, used those words in his meeting with Blumenthal. Several other senators, including Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, later relayed similar accounts of Gorsuch forcefully criticizing Trump's public attacks on the judiciary branch ...

But none of that stopped Trump from firing off a shot against Blumenthal -- and at the same time raising questions about the coherence of the White House's messaging ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/09/politics/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-democrats/

[struggle4progress]

1. Trumps Baffling Tweet on Gorsuch

By Eugene Kiely
Posted on February 9, 2017
Updated on February 9, 2017

... Trump accused Blumenthal of lying in a tweet on the morning after the senator’s meeting with Gorsuch ...

http://www.factcheck.org/2017/02/trumps-baffling-tweet-on-gorsuch/

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Blumenthal told the truth, dumbshit knows that, so what does Fuckface do?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. More Drumpf alt-facts